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How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - kom2 - May-03-2019
I want to create an AI move into my game, after the player does one. Is there any function I could use in order to let AI wait for few seconds before it makes a move? I already tried a canvas.after(), but it didn´t work properly (it also freezed my move).
RE: How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - Larz60+ - May-03-2019
see: https://python-forum.io/Thread-WxPython-How-to-deal-with-code-that-blocks-the-mainloop-freezing-the-gui
RE: How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - kom2 - May-04-2019
So I have read the Threads Guide, but got stucked on this point:
class Program:
def __init__(self):
self.width = 1000
self.height = 800
self.panel_width = 200
#self.root = Tk()
self.canvas = tkinter.Canvas(width=self.width, height=self.height, bg="black")
self.canvas.pack()
self.canvas.bind("<ButtonPress>", self.click)
self.figures_images = {"0": tkinter.PhotoImage(file="white_pawn.png"), ...}
self.figures = {"0":[<class Pawn...>, (x,y), image_id],"1":[<class Pawn...>, (x,y), image_id],"2":[<class Pawn...>, (x,y), image_id],...}
...
def create_layout(self):
# not important for this problem
def start_ai(self):
...
move = Move_ai(self)
# next methods are not important now
class Pawn:
def __init__(self, ...):
...
# not important for this problem
class Move_ai:
def __init__(self, program):
self.main = program
thread = threading.Thread(target=self.move)
thread.start()
def move(self):
time.sleep(3) # just to pretend PC is thinking
... # some code calculating which figure to move
selected_id = ... # id of figure it decided to move with
self.main.canvas.coords(self.main.figures_images[selected_id], tuple_of_coords)
# ^ and this is that line raising an error to me, this one:Error:Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\python\lib\threading.py", line 917, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "C:\python\lib\threading.py", line 865, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "C:\Users\user\Documents\PYTHON\chess\hra.py", line 581, in move
self.main.canvas.coords(self.main.figures_images_[selected_id], tuple_of_coords)
File "C:\python\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 2469, in coords
self.tk.call((self._w, 'coords') + args))]
RuntimeError: main thread is not in main loopRE: How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - Yoriz - May-04-2019
I've added headings to the various parts of the code in the link.
You have the error shown against the heading "Example of adding a thread but still getting a error"
The solution is in the following code examples one with and one without decorators.
RE: How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - kom2 - May-04-2019
Well I´m looking at the part "Example of adding a thread but still getting a error" but I have no idea how to suit it to my program. I have no buttons there and as I see, self.listbox.insert(tk.END, item) works with listbox I´m not using in my program.
RE: How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - Yoriz - May-04-2019
Look at "Example of a solution to the problem"
RE: How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - kom2 - May-04-2019
Well, so I have changed my code so:
class Program:
def __init__(self):
self.width = 1000
self.height = 800
self.panel_width = 200
#self.root = Tk()
self.canvas = tkinter.Canvas(width=self.width, height=self.height, bg="black")
self.canvas.pack()
self.canvas.bind("<ButtonPress>", self.click)
self.figures_images = {"0": tkinter.PhotoImage(file="white_pawn.png"), ...}
self.figures = {"0":[<class Pawn...>, (x,y), image_id],"1":[<class Pawn...>, (x,y), image_id],"2":[<class Pawn...>, (x,y), image_id],...}
...
def create_layout(self):
# not important for this problem
def start_ai(self):
...
move = Move_ai(self)
# next methods are not important now
class Pawn:
def __init__(self, ...):
...
# not important for this problem
class Move_ai:
def __init__(self, program):
self.main = program
thread_pool_executor = futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1)
thread_pool_executor.submit(self.move)
def move(self):
time.sleep(3) # just to pretend PC is thinking
... # some code calculating which figure to move
selected_id = ... # id of figure it decided to move with
self.main.canvas.coords(self.main.figures_images[selected_id], tuple_of_coords)
# ^ and this is that line raising an error to me, this one:And now it does not raise any error message, but it just freezes at point of canvas.coords (and no other moves are able to do). Did I forgot to implement something more from "Example of a solution to the problem"?
RE: How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - Yoriz - May-04-2019
You have to use the
canvas.after method for calling methods of the gui, it moves the calls back into the mainloops thread.The follwing is an code from that thread
class MainFrame(tk.Frame):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
....
....
def set_label_text(self, text=''):
self.label['text'] = text
def blocking_code(self):
self.after(0, self.set_label_text, 'running')
for number in range(5):
self.after(0, self.listbox_insert, number)
print(number)
time.sleep(1)
self.after(0, self.set_label_text, ' not running')In the method blocking_code self.after(0, self.set_label_text, 'running') is calling self.set_label_text back in the mainloops thread.
RE: How to create a delay for AI without freezing the GUI - Yoriz - May-04-2019
If you just want to delay something the first argument to after is how long to wait in millisecs before calling the passed in callback.
import tkinter as tk
import time
class MainFrame(tk.Frame):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.label = tk.Label(self, text='Player 1 turn')
self.label.pack()
self.button = tk.Button(
self, text='Player 1 Move', command=self.on_button)
self.button.pack(pady=15)
self.pack()
def on_button(self):
print('Button clicked')
self.label['text'] = 'player 2 thinking'
self.button['state'] = 'disabled'
self.after(3000, self.delayed_player_2)
def delayed_player_2(self):
self.label['text'] = 'player 2 moving'
self.after(1000, self.player_2_finsihed)
def player_2_finsihed(self):
self.label['text'] = 'player 1 turn'
self.button['state'] = 'normal'
if __name__ == '__main__':
app = tk.Tk()
main_frame = MainFrame()
app.mainloop()